Of all my reviewers you are, perhaps, the only one who has thoroughly understood me; who has taken a general bird's-eye view of my ideas; who sees their ulterior aim, and yet has preserved a clear perception of the details.
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Alexis de Tocqueville to Mill (3 December 1835), quoted in Michael St. John Packe, The Life of John Stuart Mill (1954), p. 201