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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

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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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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 20th, 1806

Died: May 8th, 1873

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