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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt

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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.
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To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
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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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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
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To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.
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A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
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The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
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