Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power…

Bertrand Russell
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). Authority and the Individual, p.51, Routledge
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