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Even if everybody knows …

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 10, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags Anatole France

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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