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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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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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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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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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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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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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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 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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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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