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Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
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
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing

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