Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Making allowances

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them.
The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others —
that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

                            Eric Hoffer, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront







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