Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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Old 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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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