How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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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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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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