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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Source: Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 241 (1823; repr. in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. by P. P. Howe, 1932).
-- 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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