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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Herbert Spencer

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
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Form Government Old Terror
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion

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