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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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Once you get into this great stream of history, you cant get out. – Richard M. Nixon

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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. – Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship

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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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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. – Susan Sontag

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