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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
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