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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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It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
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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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I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
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Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
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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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Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
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