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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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End Life Love Wealth
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
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

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