How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
HERBERT SPENCEROld 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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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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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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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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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