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Quote by Mark Twain
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. – Mark Twain

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. – Mark Twain

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Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. – Martina Navratilova

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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, 1799

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How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. – Alfred de Musset

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954

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