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Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men. - John Stuart Mill
" "Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
Disputed attribution. This quote's attribution is contested.From the essay 'On Social Freedom' (1907). Mill's authorship is disputed; modern scholarship (Rees 1956; Humanities 2023) credits Ebenezer R. Edger, not Mill.
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About John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.
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The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally found person to rediscover it, until some of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it.
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