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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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The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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Dandyism is a species of genius.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
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