No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than th…

Franz Grillparzer
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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