Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
HERBERT SPENCEREducation has for its object the formation of character.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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