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Language is the light of the mind.

John Stuart Mill

A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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Grave Man Moral Remark Woman
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Courage Human Intellectual Mindset Pay Price
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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Age Dare Independent Man Race Service
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
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 moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Influence Moral Salutation Woman
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
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
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Desire End Freedom Pain Pleasure
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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Kind Man Oneself Opinion Power Silence
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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Human Lawyer Object University
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Atmosphere Breathe Freedom Genius
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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Fundamental Greatness Improvement Thinking
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.
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Crime Necessary Offend Premium Punishment State
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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Experience Forever History Ideas Persecution Truth
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Conviction Feeling Man Raise

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