Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
HERBERT SPENCERAn 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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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