We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERThe behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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