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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
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William Carew Hazlitt
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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