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

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. – William Hazlitt

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Integrity
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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Imagination
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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy
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And as long as youre subject to birth and death, youll never attain enlightenment. – Bodhidharma

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Death

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. – J.J. Furnas

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Death

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. – Angela Davis

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Death

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. – Sophocles

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Death

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