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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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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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