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

Herbert Spencer

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Color Glass Project Pull See
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
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
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
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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 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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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

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