An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON CONVENTIONALITY
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
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