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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
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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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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
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An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
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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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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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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 man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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