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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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Those who can command themselves command others.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
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