Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
HERBERT SPENCERThe behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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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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