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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
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
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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Death Live Moments Place
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax

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