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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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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, No. There was a fire in the room.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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Painting gives the object itself poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
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Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
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To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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I can enjoy society in a room but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
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