Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
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