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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Clerk
Economist
Egalitarianism
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Politician
Suffragist
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Islington
J. S. Mill
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