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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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