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Features alone do not run in the blood vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge.
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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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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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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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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