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Herbert Spencer has 122 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
• The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious…
• People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
• The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by…
• This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called…
• And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in…
• We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul…
• To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

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