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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 what we really understand, we reason but little.
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There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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Whatever interests is interesting.
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
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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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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.
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