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Letter "W" » William Hazlitt Quotes
«The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.»
«No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.»
«The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.»
«Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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«They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.»
«The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice»
«The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Spleen can subsist on any kind of food»
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