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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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