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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
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