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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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We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
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The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
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It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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