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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. – William Hazlitt

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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt

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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. – William Hazlitt

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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

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

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Names

Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb

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Names

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

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