No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
JOHN STUART MILLTo understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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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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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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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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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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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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