I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
abhorrence false hazard
Frederick Douglass
These are some quotes by American author Frederick Douglass Author, who lived between February 14, 1817 and February 20, 1895.
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