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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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I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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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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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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