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A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
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It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
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