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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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Hope is the best possession.
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Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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