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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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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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