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But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.
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Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.
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The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind and the will; we must act on them, we must experiment on them, we must let them permeate our consciousness.
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A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.
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All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
June 16, 1865
Died:
May 13, 1916
(aged 50)
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Margaret Benson was an English author and amateur Egyptologist.
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