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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William Hazlitt
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Do not quarrel with the world too soon for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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Power is pleasure and pleasure sweetens pain.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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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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The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
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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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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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