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Quote by William Hazlitt
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – William Hazlitt

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. – William Hazlitt

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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin

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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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