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The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
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The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
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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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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.
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Policeman are soldiers who act alone soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
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