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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.

Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Death Live Moments Place
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
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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Color Glass Project Pull See
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
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 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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe

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