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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
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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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We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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