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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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Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain

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They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

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