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Features alone do not run in the blood vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
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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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