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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

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
Language is the light of the mind.
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Language Light Mindset
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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Marriage Perspective Slave Wife Word
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Desire Man Rich
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Better Fight Himself Man Misery Willing
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
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.
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Conscience Form Goodness Harm Man Oneself
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
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Finding Hands Instrument Man Order Purpose State
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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Conservative People Stupidity True
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
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 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
There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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Assumption Difference Greatness Opinion Purpose

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