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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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