Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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 behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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