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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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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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