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Here it is fitting to remark that the study of the spontaneous growth of languages is of the utmost importance to those who would logically remodel them.

— John Stuart Mill

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One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

On Representative Government (1861)

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?

Egoists: A Book of Supermen (1909)

I deny that anyone knows, or can know, the nature of the two sexes, as long as they have only been seen in their present relation to one another.

The Subjection of Women (1869)

Whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known beyond possibility of question. What one sees or feels, whether bodily or mentally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels.

A System of Logic (1843)

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Principles of Political Economy (1848)

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