The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, m…

John Stuart Mill
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1989). J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings, p.59, Cambridge University Press
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