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Herbert Spencer

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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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
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
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Form Government Old Terror
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
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.
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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
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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