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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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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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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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The more we do, the more we can do the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
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