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Improvement Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
- 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.
- It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to…
- Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
- Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement…
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