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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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 ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
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Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
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Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.
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Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear so surely must man become perfect.
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Policeman are soldiers who act alone soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
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When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
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Lusts are like agues the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
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