It is an unpleasant thing to differ in opinion with the rest of one's species - it is making a sort of North Pole of one's own, and then setting out in search of it. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

It is an unpleasant thing to differ in opinion with the rest of one's species - it is making a sort of North Pole of one's own, and then setting out in search of it.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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