A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCERA jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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