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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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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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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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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
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To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
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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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I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
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In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.
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Good temper is an estate for life.
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