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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Believe, Empathy, Apathy
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.142
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.