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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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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
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Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.
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