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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
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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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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
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