“We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”

Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

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French philosopher 1863–1948

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