To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. (William Hazlitt)

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

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