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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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Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
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There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
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I am then never less alone than when alone
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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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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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
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