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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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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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Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
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The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
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What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
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Hope is the best possession.
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The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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Natural affection is a prejudice for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
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The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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