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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
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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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Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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A felon could plead benefit of clergy and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the neck verse, which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
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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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