No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
HERBERT SPENCERThose who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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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 wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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