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Zeal will do more than knowledge.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
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Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
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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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