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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Do not quarrel with the world too soon for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
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