"There is [β¦] no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."
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William Hazlitt, The Round Table (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1817), Vol. I, "On the Tendency of Sects", p. 142.
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