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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.

Herbert Spencer

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our 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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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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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End Life Love Wealth
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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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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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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