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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
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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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
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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Form Government Old Terror
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish

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