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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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