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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
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
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
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
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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