There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain William Hazlitt Quotes
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is we think of them as we please that is as they please or displease us.

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