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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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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. – Proverb

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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese 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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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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