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Quote by William Hazlitt
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. – William Hazlitt

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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

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Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. – Samuli Paronen

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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. – Proverb

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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