Quote by William Carlos Williams

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's work from being suppressed; but anything more than this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

William Carlos Williams Freedom
Poet Physician American 1883–1963

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