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Well I've had a happy life.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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Elegance is something more than ease it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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A felon could plead benefit of clergy and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the neck verse, which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.
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The worst old age is that of the mind.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
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