Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Outvoted

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

-- Nathaniel Lee (c. 1653 - 1692), English dramatist, remark after being incarcerated in Bedlam for five years, as quoted in the Introduction of A Social History of Madness : The World Through the Eyes of the Insane (1987) by Roy Porter

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