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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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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.
William Hazlitt
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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.
William Hazlitt -
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
William Hazlitt -
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
William Hazlitt -
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
William Hazlitt
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt -
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
William Hazlitt -
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
William Hazlitt -
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.
William Hazlitt
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
William Hazlitt -
It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
William Hazlitt -
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
William Hazlitt -
Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
William Hazlitt -
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
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Those who object to wit are envious of it.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
William Hazlitt -
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt -
Hope is the best possession.
William Hazlitt