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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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Hope is the best possession.
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If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
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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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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 best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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