“Thus the cloud gradually drew off, and I again enjoyed life: and though I had several relapses, some of which lasted many months, I never again was as miserable as I had been.”

—  John Stuart Mill , book Autobiography

Autobiography (1873)

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British philosopher and political economist 1806–1873

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