The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. ✨ Sir Th…

Thomas Browne
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The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1844). Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.], p.183
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