It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We kn…

Eric Hoffer
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It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1955). The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
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