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Government is essentially immoral.

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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

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Every cause produces more than one effect.

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All socialism involves slavery.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 27th, 1820

Died: December 8th, 1903

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