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The more you do, the more you can do.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?
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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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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey I can enjoy society in a room but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
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Dandyism is a variety of genius.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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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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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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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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