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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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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
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Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
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Good temper is an estate for life.
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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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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
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As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence and we become misers in this respect.
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.
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