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

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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. – William Hazlitt

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

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Inheritance

You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity. – Theodore L. Cuyler

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Inheritance

He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral. – Yiddish Proverb

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. – Samuel Smiles

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You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Substitute damn every time youre inclined to write very your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. – Mark Twain

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I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb. – Michel Odent

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