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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

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
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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

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