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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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