Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Learned Hand (1872-1961) American jurist

“The Preservation of Personality,” speech, commencement, Bryn Mawr College (1927-06-02)
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First printed in the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin (Oct 1927).