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Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. – Mark Twain, 1907, letter to Harriet E. Whitmore

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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

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If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. – Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892

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