If a man is once launched upon the right career and in the right surroundings, he can in most cases escape social persecution, but while he is young and his merits are still untested, he is liable to be at the mercy of ignorant people who consider themselves capable of judging in matters about which they know nothing, ...
Source: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap.9:Fear of public opinion.
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