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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

Source: Common Places, no. 60, in Literary Examiner (London, 8 Nov. 1823; repr. in Collected Works, vol. 11, ed. by A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover, 1904).
-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10 1778-1830), English writer, essayist; He wrote Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity.

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