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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
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A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
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To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
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Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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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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When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
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Dandyism is a variety of genius.
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