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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
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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End Life Love Wealth
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
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
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man

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