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Quote by William Hazlitt
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, sp

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt

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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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The public seldom forgive twice. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Im not a very gregarious person. I cant bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. – Gabriel Byrne

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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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A man in public life expects to be sneered at — it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. – Charles Dickens

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