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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
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While we desire, we do not enjoy and with enjoyment desire ceases.
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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
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When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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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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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
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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.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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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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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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