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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
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