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That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
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