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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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Experience makes us wise.
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
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There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. I count only the hours that are serene..
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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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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We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
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