We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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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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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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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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