“No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 4
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“A man wholly destitute of philanthropy is a monster, justly detested by all mankind; but another, entirely incapable of anger, is a sheepish wretch, liable to be insulted by every mean-spirited villain.”
Book III, ch. II, Account of our stay at Tanna, and departure from the New Hebrides.
A Voyage Round the World (1777)
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