We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERWe all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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