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William Hazlitt
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Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
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Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.
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A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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Whatever interests is interesting.
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A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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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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