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A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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