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Quote by William Hazlitt
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shake

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. – William Hazlitt

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. – William Hazlitt

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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – William Hazlitt

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