"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
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Sigmund Freud: Letter to Ernest Jones (1933). As quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 779.
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