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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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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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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.
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A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
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The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
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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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We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
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To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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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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