“Whereas fortitude was once regarded as a virtue, it has come to be regarded as a kind of reprehensible and deliberate obtuseness, to be utterly condemned as treason to the self (there is no fury like a non-judgmentalist scorned).”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Bad counsel http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/jun05/therap.htm (June 2005).
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English doctor and writer 1949

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