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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.
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That which is not, shall never be that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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