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.
HERBERT SPENCERWhat a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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