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What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

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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The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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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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The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
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