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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..

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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Habit is necessary to give power.
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt none out of ten have the inclination.
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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