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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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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
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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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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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Whatever interests is interesting.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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