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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass no day without a line-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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