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Full Idea
Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends.
Gist of Idea
Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends
Source
John Stuart Mill (Utilitarianism [1861], Ch.2)
Book Ref
Mill,John Stuart: 'Utilitarianism (including On Liberty etc)', ed/tr. Warnock,Mary [Fontana 1962], p.257