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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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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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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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Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
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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 idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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