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That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
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The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
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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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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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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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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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