He was a hero, that is, he was ready to sacrifice his own l… - William Hazlitt

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He was a hero, that is, he was ready to sacrifice his own life for the pleasure of destroying thousands of other lives.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. He is sometimes esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson.

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Alternative Names: Wm. Haslett • William Carew Hazlitt

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Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.

You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

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.

He was a hero, that is, he was ready to sacrifice his own life for the pleasure of destroying thousands of other lives. - William Hazlitt

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