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We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
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Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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Painting gives the object itself poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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