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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
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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Islington
J. S. Mill
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When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
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