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

Herbert Spencer

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
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
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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Death Live Moments Place
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish

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