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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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Power is pleasure and pleasure sweetens pain.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
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When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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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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The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
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Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
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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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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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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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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
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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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