Those who can command themselves command others. ✨ William Hazlitt (18…

William Hazlitt
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Those who can command themselves command others. ✨ William Hazlitt (1837). Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]., p.144
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