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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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Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
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It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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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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Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
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Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
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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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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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