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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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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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To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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