Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. ✨ Lord…

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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, p.293
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