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Words are the only things that last for ever.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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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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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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I am then never less alone than when alone
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The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
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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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The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
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He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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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.
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I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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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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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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