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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
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He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
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