Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves. ✨…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.190
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