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My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
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
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
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Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
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