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No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.
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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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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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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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