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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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