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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
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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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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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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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The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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