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Experience makes us wise.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Experience
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
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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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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
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He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
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Natural affection is a prejudice for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
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We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
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By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
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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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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
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The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
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Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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