People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than th…

E. B. White
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. ✨ E. B. White (2011). In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers, p.131, Cornell University Press
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