To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain …

William Hazlitt
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. ✨ William Hazlitt (1837). Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]., p.76
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