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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.
— Herbert Spencer
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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.
— Herbert Spencer
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
— Herbert Spencer
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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.
— Herbert Spencer
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
— Herbert Spencer
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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
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