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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

John Stuart Mill

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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Marriage Perspective Slave Wife Word
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
JOHN STUART MILL

Crime Necessary Offend Premium Punishment State
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Compose Individual State Worth
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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Deserve Effort Freedom Name Pursue
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.
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Errors Fatal Mistake Reason Tendency Thinking
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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Economy Growth Hold Rich Sleep Title
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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Better Different Fools Human Opinion Question Satisfaction
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Conviction Feeling Man Raise
In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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Community Government Interesting Reason Worst
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
JOHN STUART MILL

Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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Economy Income Industry Neighbor Save Tax
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
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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Assumption Difference Greatness Opinion Purpose
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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Action Evil Injury Oneself Person
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
JOHN STUART MILL

Action Himself Individual Person

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