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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.
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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
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The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
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