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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
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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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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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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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