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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
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The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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