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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.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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