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

Herbert Spencer

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
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
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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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Death Live Moments Place
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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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End Life Love Wealth

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