Quotes with nickname

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• A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

  Source: Round table

  ― William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

  ― Alan Alda
  American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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• I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
  

  ― Stephen Hawking
  English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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• Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

  Source: Sketches and Essays, On Nicknames

  ― William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

  ― Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unanswerable
• classmates
• potential
• eloquence
• arguments
• nicknames

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