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I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Freud
May
Substance
Little
Avoid
Firsts
Road
First
Lead
Giving
Gives
Way
Words
Heartedness
Never
Tell
Concessions
Like
Littles
Faint

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