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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.

John Stuart Mill

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
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
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
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
JOHN STUART MILL

Human Lawyer Object University
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
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
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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Choice Himself Imitation Planning World
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
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
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Influence Moral Salutation Woman
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 worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Compose Individual State Worth
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
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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Ability Act Belief Majority Man

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