Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bitt…

William Hazlitt
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal. ✨ William Hazlitt (1826). The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt]., p.309
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal. ✨ William Hazlitt (1826). The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt]., p.309

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