Conscience Quote by Harriet Martineau

“Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.”

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Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

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