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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
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As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence and we become misers in this respect.
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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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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
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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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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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