All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
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- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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- Letter as published in The Letters of Mozart & His Family (1938) translated and edited by Emily Anderson, p. 1114.
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- Austrian
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