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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
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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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