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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
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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Color Glass Project Pull See
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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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Death Live Moments Place
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing

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