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Power is pleasure and pleasure sweetens pain.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
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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 trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
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A felon could plead benefit of clergy and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the neck verse, which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.
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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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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.
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