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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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I am then never less alone than when alone
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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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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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
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Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
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It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
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In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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A mighty stream of tendency.
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