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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

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
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
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
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
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
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
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

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