The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
JOHN STUART MILLTo understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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