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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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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.
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Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
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Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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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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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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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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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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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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Well I've had a happy life.
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