Government is essentially immoral.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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