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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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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
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We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
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