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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 2001
AUTHOR: John Stuart Mill (1806–73)
QUOTATION: That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to JOHN STUART MILL.—Adlai E. Stevenson, Call to Greatness, p. 102 (1954). Unverified.
SUBJECTS: Wisdom