"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."

Spencer, Herbert on love
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."

Spencer, Herbert on fools and foolishness   

"A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance."

Spencer, Herbert on juries   

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Spencer, Herbert on law and lawyers   

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

Voltaire on virginity
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"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing."

Spencer, Herbert on republican   

"Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him."

Spencer, Herbert on time   

"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."

Spencer, Herbert on words   

"Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious naturethis is alike the aim of parent and teacher. "

Spencer, Herbert on uncategorised
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"As capital become international, international peace becomes a necessity."

Spencer, Herbert on capital   

"War strengthens the central power and subordinates all interests to those of the state. Progress depends on the cessation of war. "

Spencer, Herbert on   

"He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level."

Fox, Charles James on guilt
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"The worst of revolutions is a restoration."

Fox, Charles James on evolution   

"It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature."

Melbourne, Lord on fallibility   

"The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts."

Melbourne, Lord on government   

"That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong."

Melbourne, Lord on leadership   

"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it."

Melbourne, Lord on policy   

"Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle."

Melbourne, Lord on principles
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"Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name."

Melbourne, Lord on wealth   

"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."

Hardy, Thomas on language
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"All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes."

Gladstone, William E. on class   

"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes."

Gladstone, William E. on failure
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"Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right."

Gladstone, William E. on ethics   

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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Rogers, Will on experts
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"The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on humor   

"I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."

Malcolm X on respectability
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"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Chaplin, Charlie on comedy and comedians   

"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."

Walpole, Horace on life
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"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

Byron, Lord on america
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"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."

James, Henry on america
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"The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it."

Macleish, Archibald on america   

"Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles."

Miller, Henry on america   

"The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on nationalities and nationalism   

"In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside."

Synge, J. M. on sons   

"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on mother-in-laws
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"You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes."

Schirra Sr., Walter on sons   

"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time."

Barrymore, John on life
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