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Apt Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that…
- As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good,…
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