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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
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The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.
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