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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
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I am then never less alone than when alone
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Well I've had a happy life.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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A mighty stream of tendency.
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
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