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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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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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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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