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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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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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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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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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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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