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No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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