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Apt Quotes by William Penn
- We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
- We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
- There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since…
- If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful…
- We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
- 1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn To be like…
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