“Good temper is an estate for life…”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
" On Personal Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/PersCharacter.htm" (1821) <br class="br">The Plain Speaker (1826)
“172. A good Reputation is a fair Estate.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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