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So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
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Economist
Egalitarianism
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Suffragist
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Islington
J. S. Mill
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
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