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loath to

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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. François de La Rochefoucauld

So, loath to suffer mute. We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear. Matthew Arnold

Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. Robert Burton

Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic. Max Beerbohm

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. Sigmund Freud

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. Samuel Johnson

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