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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

John Stuart Mill

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
In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Action Character Evidence Goodness
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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Genius Growth Minority Person Preserve Small
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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Equality Experience Herself Man Woman
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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Human Invention Light Question
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Activity Choice Discrimination Faculty Human Mental
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Desire Man Rich
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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Development Himself Person Value
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Crush Despotism Individual
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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Greatness Mindset Opinion Small
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
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Certain Discussion Fake Opinion Refuse Silence
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 perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle

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