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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

William Hazlitt

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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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To die is only to be as we were before we were born yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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That which is not, shall never be that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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