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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
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
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
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
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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

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