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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
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 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
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage

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