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Quote by William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring 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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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. – William Hazlitt

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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles de Gaulle

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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. – Alban Goodier

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