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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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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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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
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Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
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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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True friendship is self-love at second hand where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
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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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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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