“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.”

—  William Hazlitt

"On The Conduct of Life" (1822)

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English writer 1778–1830

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