5 quotes about Conventionality



He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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