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Quote by William Hazlitt
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

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The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. – William Hazlitt

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