“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”

— Clarence Darrow

As quoted in Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do" by Peter McWilliams, from 2000 Years of Disbelief (1996) edited by James A Haught p. 817

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