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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
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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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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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
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The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
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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 most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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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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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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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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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt none out of ten have the inclination.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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