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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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