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

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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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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Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
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