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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
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The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
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Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
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