Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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