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William Hazlitt

Birthday: April 10, 1778
Deathday: September 18, 1830
Category: English Critic
Type: Critic
National: English

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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

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