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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

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

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Ridicule
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William Hazlitt
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. – William Hazlitt

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Friendship
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History is more or less bunk. – Henry Ford

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History

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? – Robert Penn Warren, Segregation

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History

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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History

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. – Walter Raleigh, History of the World

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History

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