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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

William Hazlitt

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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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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 history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass no day without a line-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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The only true retirement is that of the heart the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
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Words are the only things that last for ever.
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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
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