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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

John Stuart Mill

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
JOHN STUART MILL

Action Existence People Value
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Government Necessary Power Reason Restriction
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Growth Money Rich Risk Sleep
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
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
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
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Greatness Known Tradition
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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Age Dare Independent Man Race Service
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Influence Moral Salutation Woman
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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Kind Man Oneself Opinion Power Silence
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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Act Exercise Ourselves Right Way
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
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
JOHN STUART MILL

Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Experience Flavor Life Risk Shelter
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Achievement Appearance Born Chance Desire Freedom Human Life Place

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