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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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Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. I count only the hours that are serene..
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In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
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