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Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass no day without a line-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
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Experience makes us wise.
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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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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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