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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

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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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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Experience makes us wise.
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Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
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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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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
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