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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
Journalist
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Philosopher
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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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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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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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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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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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