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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Herbert Spencer

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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
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
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
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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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

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