Argument III: Day 195 readings from "Character And Conduct" - July 16

Readings for July 16 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.

Argument

Original text:

https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n213/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_197

Authors featured today:

Voltaire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire
François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer)
Herbert Spencer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer

Constance Whishaw provides no attribution for the first reading, but it appears in Voltaire's "The Philosophical Dictionary."
https://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volpreju.html
https://archive.org/details/philosophicaldi01unkngoog/page/n210/mode/2up?q=Prejudice+is

Image:

English philosopher Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 - 8 December 1903)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Spencer.jpg