When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCERWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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 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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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