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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
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Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
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Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
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We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
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