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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill

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
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
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
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Himself Liberty Limitation Nuisance People
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Growth Money Rich Risk Sleep
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
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
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
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
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Brief Complex Luck Photography
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Atmosphere Breathe Freedom Genius
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
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 pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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Ability Action Himself Pupil Work
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself

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