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Mill on Conservatives

Thanks to Ciceronian Review for this gem:

John Stuart Mill, letter to the Conservative MP, Sir John Pakington (March, 1866):

“I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.”

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