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Well I've had a happy life.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
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Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.
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I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
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