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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Painter
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
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That which is not, shall never be that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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