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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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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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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
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Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.
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A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
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To die is only to be as we were before we were born yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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