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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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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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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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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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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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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
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