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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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The worst old age is that of the mind.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
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The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, No. There was a fire in the room.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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