How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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