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"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage"."
Marriage

"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";"
Marriage

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."

"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."

"Government is essentially immoral."

"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."

"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."

"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."

"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."

"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."

"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."

"A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it."

"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."

"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."

"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."

"There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation."

"A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance."

"Science is organized knowledge."

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