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The public have neither shame or gratitude.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
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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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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey but I like to go by myself.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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