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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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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Egalitarianism
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Islington
J. S. Mill
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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