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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.
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We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
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I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
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Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
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Love may turn to indifference with possession.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
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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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