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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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The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
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A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt none out of ten have the inclination.
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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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