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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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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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Travel
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt

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alone
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. – William Hazlitt

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Pain
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play. – Hugh Leonard

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Death

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. – Tennessee Williams, “The Rose Tattoo”

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After the writers death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. – Jean Cocteau

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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish Id invented it, because it is very true. – Audrey Hepburn

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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. – Paul Cezanne

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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. – African Proverb

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