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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.
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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.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
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The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
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While we desire, we do not enjoy and with enjoyment desire ceases.
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Experience makes us wise.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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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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