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Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
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Painter
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
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We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
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A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
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The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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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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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
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Experience makes us wise.
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