Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCEROur lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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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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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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