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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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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
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