A person desires impulses own—are expression nature, developed modifie — John Stuart Mill, Liberty

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A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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