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    • “The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?” ― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics),
    • “Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”
    • “... the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.” ― Jeremy Bentham.
    • “What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible of happiness? They are of two sorts: (1) Other human beings who are styled persons.
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    • Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. Jeremy Bentham.
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    • It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham.
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    Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth — that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

    A century ago it was perfectly well known that whoever had one audience of a Master in Chancery was made to pay for three, but no man heeded the enormity until it suggested to a young lawyer that i...

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