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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
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
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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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

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