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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
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Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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The more you do, the more you can do.
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Hope is the best possession.
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
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