The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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 ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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