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Bertrand Russell Quotes: Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.
         

Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.


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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.



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