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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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