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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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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 most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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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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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
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The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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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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Reflection makes men cowards.
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.
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