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The more we do, the more we can do the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
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