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Herbert Spencer

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. (Essays, 1891)
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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English philosopher, 1820-1903

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