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Quote by Robert Peel
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. – Robert Peel

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But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. – Robert Peel

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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. – Lydia Maria Child

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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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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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We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. – Charles Dudley Warner

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