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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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"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."
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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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"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
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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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"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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"The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."
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"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
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"Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost."
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"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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