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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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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. – William Hazlitt

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. – William Hazlitt

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There are only three events in a mans life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. – Jean de la Bruyere

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