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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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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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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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