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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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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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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 have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
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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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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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