"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."

Death, Sacrifice, Development, Conventionality

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"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."

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