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To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

William Hazlitt

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Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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