“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 87
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
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Religious leader and peace activist 1926Related quotes
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