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All those to whom I looked up, were of opinion that the pleasure of…

Quote byJohn Stuart Mill · 1806–1873

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Ch. 5: A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward., (p. 138).

English (original)

All those to whom I looked up, were of opinion that the pleasure of sympathy with human beings, and the feelings which made the good of others, and especially of mankind on a large scale, the object of existence, were the greatest and surest sources of happiness. Of the truth of this I was convinced, but to know that a feeling would make me happy if I had it, did not give me the feeling.

— John Stuart Mill

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