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“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.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Title: Wikiquote: 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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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart

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