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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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