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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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Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
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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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The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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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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Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
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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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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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