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The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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