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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

John Stuart Mill

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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Adverse Chance Opinion Subject Supply Truth
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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Action Himself Individual Person
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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Absence Action Happiness Pain Pleasure Proportion Reverse Right
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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Conservatism Fact Myself Question Stupidity Thinking
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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Choice Himself Imitation Planning World
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Force Improvement Liberty People Spirit Willing
Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Desire Liberty Oneself
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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Desire Learning Satisfaction Seek
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Conclusion Evil State Subject
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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Act Conscience Desire Man Sick Strong Weakness
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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History Liberty Portion Poverty Struggle
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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Act Exercise Ourselves Right Way
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Action Existence People Value

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