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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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To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. – Praxedis Guerrero, Regeneración, 1911 February 18th

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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. – Aesop, “The Man and His Two Wives,” Fables

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. – Alfred North Whitehead

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. – Walter Bagehot

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