We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
HERBERT SPENCERThe great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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