"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think....
It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
It is easy in solitude to live after our own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with the perfect sweetness the independence of solitude....
To be great is to be misunderstood."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance"
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