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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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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. – William Hazlitt

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Success
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. – William Hazlitt

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Friendship
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People think celebrities dont have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. Its like youve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. – David Duchovny

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Our birth is nothing but our death begun. – Edward Young, Night Thoughts

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When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. – H.L. Mencken

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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