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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
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
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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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
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
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
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
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
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
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society

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