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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

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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
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

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