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Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
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The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
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Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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