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

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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan

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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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