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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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