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Herbert Spencer1820–1903

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Herbert Spencer on happiness

Social Statics (1851), Pt. IV, Ch. 30: General Considerations

Freedom Happiness Morality

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