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While popular truth is one-sided, it is better that unpopular truths have one-sided advocates too
Drawn from what John Stuart Mill said
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- John Stuart Mill Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal
Rather, he will think that so long as popular truth is one-sided, it is more desirable than otherwise that unpopular truth should have one-sided asserters too; such being usually the most energetic, and the most likely to compel reluctant attention to the fragment of wisdom which they proclaim as if it were the whole.
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