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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
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Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
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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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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
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Habit is necessary to give power.
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Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
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Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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