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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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William Carew Hazlitt
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Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
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If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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