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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Source: Characteristics: in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 132 (1823; repr. in Collected Works, vol. 2, ed. by A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover, 1902).
-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10 1778-1830), English writer, essayist; He wrote Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity.

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