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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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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End Life Love Wealth
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
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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