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September 6, 2025

Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ben Hecht (1894–1964), American journalist, writer, A Guide for the Bedevilled (1947), Seldes p.177

What do you suppose caused the shipwreck? And to what sort of safety?

No doubt Jane Austen would agree that pride can be made to serve the same purpose.

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