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Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
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It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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