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Quote by William Hazlitt
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunit

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. – William Hazlitt

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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt

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best
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. – William Hazlitt

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Grace
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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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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. – Honore de Balzac

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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow. – Charlotte Bronte

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Its going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. – Kin Hubbard

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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. – Thomas Fuller

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