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Principle is a passion for truth.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
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