We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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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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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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