Quote by William Hazlitt
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. – William Hazlitt

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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. – Geraldine Brooks

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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. – Richard Hofstadter

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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein

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As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as youre working and when the cameras rolling, but theres certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that youre making a movie. – John Hawkes

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