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1843·Copenhagen, Denmark

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

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Boredom is the root of all evil — the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Copenhagen, Denmark