Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker. Oct. 2008. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/06/081006crat_atlarge_gopnik [[File:Joshua Greene.png|thumb|The founding utilitarians, Bentham and Mill, were not just armchair philosophers. They were daring social reformers, intensely engaged with the social and political issues of their day. Indeed, many familiar social issues became social issues because Bentham and Mill made them so. ~ Joshua Greene]]

No one has ever been so right about so many things so much of the time as John Stuart Mill.

— Adam Gopnik

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "No one has ever been so right about so many things so much of the time as John Stuart Mill." in the context of "Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker. Oct. 2008. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/06/081006crat_atlarge_gopnik [[File:Joshua Greene.png|thumb|The founding utilitarians, Bentham and Mill, were not just armchair philosophers. They were daring social reformers, intensely engaged with the social and political issues of their day. Indeed, many familiar social issues became social issues because Bentham and Mill made them so. ~ Joshua Greene]]" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Stuart Mill

About John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.