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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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William Carew Hazlitt
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
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Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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