Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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