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Quote by William Hazlitt
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. – William Hazlitt

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Friendship
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt

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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. – Virginia Woolf

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The Supreme Courts only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. – Irving R. Kaufman

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey

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Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. “Yes” is the answer. – SwamiX

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. – Mark Twain

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. – John Dryden

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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now

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