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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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