Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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