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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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