Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCEREducation has for its object the formation of character.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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