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Quote by William Hazlitt
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the h

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt

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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – 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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. – Francis Quarles

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Hatred is corrosive of a persons wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nations spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a societys tolerance and humanity, and block a nations progress to freedom and democracy. – Liu Xiaobo

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The result showed the wisdom of your orders. – John Bigelow

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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. – M. Scott Peck

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Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A majority is always better than the best repartee. – Benjamin Disraeli

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