Dread Quote by William Hazlitt

“When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.” quote by William Hazlitt — Download Open image

“When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.”

William Hazlitt

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