Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be. β¨ John Stuart Mill (2015). Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography, p.118, θ°·ζη€Ύ
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