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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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William Hazlitt
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The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
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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 title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt none out of ten have the inclination.
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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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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
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Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
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He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
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Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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