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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Most people die without ever having lived. Luckily for them, they don't realize it.
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I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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I don't know whether you find also in your part of the world that there are certain people who go zealously snuffing about to smell out moral corruption, and, as soon as they have found some, put the person concerned into some lucrative position where they can keep their eye on him. Healthy natures are left out in the cold.
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The common people are nothing more than the raw material of which a People is made.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan
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Born:
March 20, 1828
Died:
May 23, 1906
(aged 78)
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