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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But fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath — tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

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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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