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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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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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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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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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The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
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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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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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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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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey I can enjoy society in a room but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.
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