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The worst old age is that of the mind.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
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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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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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