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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Herbert Spencer
Born: April 27, 1820
Died: December 8, 1903 (aged 83)
Bio: Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.
Known for:
- Social Statics (1851)
- The Man Versus the State (1884)
- The principles of sociology (1874)
- Education Intellectual, Moral and Physical (1860)
- First principles (1860)
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