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The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
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There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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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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By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
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