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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
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The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
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