Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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