People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCERWhen a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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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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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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