Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCERA jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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