The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
HERBERT SPENCERWhat a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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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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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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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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 jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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