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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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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt

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I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. – Andrew Carnegie

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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. – Juvenal

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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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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. – Mother Teresa

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