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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.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Gerbert Spencer
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The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.
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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
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Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.
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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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