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730. Popular Reaction; Silence
"Nothing is to be estimated by its effect upon common eyes and common ears. A thousand miseries make silent and invisible inroads on mankind, and the heart feels innumerable throbs, which never break into complaint."
Johnson: Rambler #68 (November 10, 1750)
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