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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.

Herbert Spencer

Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
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 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
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
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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
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
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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

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