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Quote by William Hazlitt
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes t

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

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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Oceans
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William Hazlitt
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt

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

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Superstition

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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Superstition

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

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Superstition

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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Superstition

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