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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
William Hazlitt
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1778 to 1830; Wikidata Q126596, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126596 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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