“You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others — that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.”

—  Eric Hoffer

Journal entry (30 October 1958, 6:30 am)
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront (1969)

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American philosopher 1898–1983

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