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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
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Those who object to wit are envious of it.
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
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The more you do, the more you can do.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
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He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
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I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.
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The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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Painting gives the object itself poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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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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