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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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