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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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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
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We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
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The more you do, the more you can do.
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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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