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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

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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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
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