Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest …

Joseph Addison
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. ✨ Joseph Addison (1828). A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens, p.40
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