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Elegance is something more than ease it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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