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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance · 1841

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“Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one already.”

Henry David Thoreau · Resistance to Civil Government, 1849 · Primary source

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