The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCEROpinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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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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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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