The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. ✨ …

William Hazlitt
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. ✨ William Hazlitt (1839). Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son, p.160
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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back. ✨ William Hazlitt (1934). The Complete Works of William Hazlitt
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. ✨ Table Talk The Indian Jugglers (1822)
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. ✨ William Hazlitt (1839). Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son, p.160

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