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Every cause produces more than one effect.

Herbert Spencer

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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
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
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
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
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage

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