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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
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