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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Littleness
Shrinks
Greatness
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