Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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