Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.…

John Stuart Mill
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. ✨ John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill, p.99, Hackett Publishing
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