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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.
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A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
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Words are the only things that last for ever.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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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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