Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
HERBERT SPENCERThe preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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