A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelve-month with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.William Hazlitt
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
William Hazlitt
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be To die is only to be as we were before we were born.
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Honesty is one part eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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Everyone in a crowd has the power to throw dirt 9 out of 10 have the inclination.
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A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a great-aunt or uncle, whose existence he has scarcely heard of.
William Hazlitt
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