Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCERThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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