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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

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
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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right

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