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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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Do not quarrel with the world too soon for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.
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It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
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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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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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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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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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