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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Herbert Spencer

Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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End Life Love Wealth
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Form Government Old Terror
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
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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Color Glass Project Pull See
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax

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