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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
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Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
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Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
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Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
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The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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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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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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