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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
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Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?
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The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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