Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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