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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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