People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCERWhat a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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