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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

John Stuart Mill

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
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.
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Affair Concern Freedom Himself Person
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Growth Money Rich Risk Sleep
To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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Children Crime Existence Instruction Mindset Prospect Society Training
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Brief Complex Luck Photography
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Happiness Myself Object Thinking
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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Moral State Ugly War Worst
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Desire End Freedom Pain Pleasure
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
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
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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Errors Fatal Mistake Reason Tendency Thinking
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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Development Force Human Live Machine Nature Requirement Tree
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Certain Discussion Fake Opinion Refuse Silence

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