"Capacity for nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by..."

“Capacity for nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by the mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the the society into which it has thrown them, are not favorable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.”



- Utilitarianism, by John Stuart Mill

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