We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
HERBERT SPENCER
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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