People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCERA jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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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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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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