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.
HERBERT SPENCERWe all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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 jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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