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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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