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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
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We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
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Dandyism is a variety of genius.
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Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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