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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
—William Hazlitt, English essayist, On Nicknames, 1818

Posted on April 16, 2004 at 2:44 PM

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