Good nature and kindness towards those with whom they come … - Henry Taylor

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Good nature and kindness towards those with whom they come in personal contact, at the expense of public interests, that is of those whom they never see, is the besetting sin of public men.

Henry Taylor

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Sir Henry Taylor KCMG (18 October 1800 – 27 March 1886) was an English civil servant, author and dramatist.

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Jean de La Bruyère Samuel Johnson François de La Rochefoucauld William Hazlitt Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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