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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
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