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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Do not quarrel with the world too soon for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
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To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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