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No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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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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Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
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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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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
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