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No really great man ever thought himself so.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
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Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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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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To die is only to be as we were before we were born yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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