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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
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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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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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