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To die is only to be as we were before we were born yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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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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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
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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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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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