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“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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