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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

John Stuart Mill

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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Conclusion Cultivation Draw Narrow Study
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
Language is the light of the mind.
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Language Light Mindset
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
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Atmosphere Breathe Freedom Genius
All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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Aspect Examination Ideas Ourselves Support Truth
In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Action Character Evidence Goodness
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
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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Fundamental Greatness Improvement Thinking
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
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
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Belief Equality Interest Person
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Different Understand Unique Woman
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Average General Kind Man World
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
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
JOHN STUART MILL

Conscience Form Goodness Harm Man Oneself

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

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