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Quote by William Hazlitt
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in h

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. – William Hazlitt

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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. – William Hazlitt

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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – William Hazlitt

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Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but its not unfamiliar to you. Its always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. – Bell Hooks

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Theres no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. – Suzanne Fields

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The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldnt get along without them. – Proverb

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. – George Ade

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