William Hazlitt Quotes

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

William Hazlitt

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• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

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• Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

  

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• The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

  

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• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

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• The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

  

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• It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

  

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• These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

  

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• I'm an idiot.

  

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• Obama: But you would rule in the possibility to fight against ISIS.Trump: Well, I'm never gonna rule anything out. And I wouldn't wanna say. Even if I felt - it wasn't going - I wouldn't wanna tell you that because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe that we would use it.

  

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• It's not our job to be liked teachers. Its our job to help them be smart students. Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!

  

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• We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Opinion
  • Consciousness
  • Claims