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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

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
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
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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 wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
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
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax

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