Stuart

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    Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

    Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if he had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material ...
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)