“The average man is happier in the wrong with a crowd, than he is in the right with only one or two companions.”

[God and the Universe: Eddington, Jeans, Huxley, & Einstein, 128, 1931, Pioneer Press, https://books.google.com/books?id=QmBHAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=happier]

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British atheist and secularist writer and lecturer 1868–1954

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