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A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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