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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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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, No. There was a fire in the room.
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The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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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 art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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