Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
HERBERT SPENCERThe behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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