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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
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Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
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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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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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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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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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Books are a world in themselves, it is true but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
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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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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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