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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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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
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Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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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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True friendship is self-love at second hand where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman dignity is proper to noblemen and majesty to kings.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
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A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
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