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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
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Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
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Features alone do not run in the blood vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
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