William Hazlitt Quotes
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.
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When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
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I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.
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The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.
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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
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An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.
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Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.
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You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
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I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.
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American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.
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We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.
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Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
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Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.
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The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.
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The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
