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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
William Hazlitt
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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Well I've had a happy life.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
William Hazlitt
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
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If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
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A mighty stream of tendency.
William Hazlitt
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
William Hazlitt