"The despotism of custom is…" — John Stuart Mill

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习俗的专制无处不在地成为人类进步的障碍。

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“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality”

John Stuart Mill

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in eith...”

“There is no necessity to separate the inward and outward life, no necessity ever to make a...”

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