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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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