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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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 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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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
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
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner

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