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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Robert Southey
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Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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Recorded source
Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)

Page 140 · printed citation: Southey · subject: Judgment

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