“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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