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Doe Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so…
- A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets…
- Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts…
- In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
- He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
- The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that…
- Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with…
- The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything…
- No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to…
- The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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