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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Herbert Spencer

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
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
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
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
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
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success

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