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William Hazlitt

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“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.”— William Hazlitt
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“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”— William Hazlitt
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“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”— William Hazlitt
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“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”— William Hazlitt
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“Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”— William Hazlitt
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“The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.”— William Hazlitt
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“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”— William Hazlitt
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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”— William Hazlitt
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“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”— William Hazlitt
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“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”— William Hazlitt
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“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”— William Hazlitt
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“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.”— William Hazlitt
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“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”— William Hazlitt
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“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”— William Hazlitt
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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”— William Hazlitt
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“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”— William Hazlitt
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“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”— William Hazlitt
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“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”— William Hazlitt
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“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”— 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
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“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”— William Hazlitt
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“The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”— William Hazlitt
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“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”— William Hazlitt
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“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”— William Hazlitt
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“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”— William Hazlitt