Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. ✨ William Ha…

William Hazlitt
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. ✨ William Hazlitt (2015). Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated), p.1476, Delphi Classics
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