Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCERCivilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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