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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
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To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.
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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
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Experience makes us wise.
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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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Good temper is an estate for life.
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