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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. ↗

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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. ↗

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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No young man ever thinks he shall die. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#ever #man #shall #thinks #young

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dr #however #johnson #lazy #learned

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#animal #himself #make-believe #man #never

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. ↗