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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
William Hazlitt
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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.
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