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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

John Stuart Mill

When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Desire End Freedom Pain Pleasure
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
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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Aspiration Beautiful Natural Presence Sick Society Solitude
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Different Understand Unique Woman
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
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Circle Government Imagination Step
In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Action Character Evidence Goodness
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
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
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Bad End Goodness Man
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
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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Achievement Appearance Born Chance Desire Freedom Human Life Place
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
JOHN STUART MILL

Affair Concern Freedom Himself Person

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