Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to… — Mark Twain · Skopia

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Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

1904

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Questioning one's beliefs Majority opinions Thinking for oneself The masses Consensus

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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