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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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