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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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