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• A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. -- William Hazlitt, Commonplace
• One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. -- William Hazli
• Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone--but part, while you can part friends.
  Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. -- William Hazli...
• You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd.
• Government for one, to hell with majority!
• Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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