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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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