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

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
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The more you do, the more you can do.
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The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
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Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
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Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
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He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
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Well I've had a happy life.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
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