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The Fountainhead Quotes

It's so easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. - Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead Quotes)

It’s so easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge.

Source:Part IV. Howard Roark, Chapter XI, Page 658
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Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead Quotes)
  • Book: The Fountainhead
  • Writer: Ayn Rand
  • Genre: Classics, Philosophy
  • Published: 1943
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