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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 4.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 4.

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