Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a deg…

William Hazlitt
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage. ✨ William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics
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