"Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time;……" — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
"Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music."
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- One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne
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