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Experience makes us wise.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
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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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