William Hazlitt's Quote - We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes t

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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. – William Hazlitt

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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. – William Hazlitt

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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. – William Hazlitt

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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. – William Hazlitt

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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. – Proverb

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

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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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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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