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Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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