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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
Writer
Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
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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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