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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

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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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