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I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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