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The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 12 (of 12)

Note 20 — THE MAIN-CHANCE

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I have said somewhere, that all professions that do not make money breed are careless and extravagant. This is not true of lawyers, &c. I ought to have said that this is the case with all those that by the regularity of their returns do not afford a prospect of realizing an independence by frugality and industry.

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