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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
By William Hazlitt
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
By William Hazlitt
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
By William Hazlitt
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
By William Hazlitt
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
By William Hazlitt
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
By William Hazlitt
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation
By William Hazlitt
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
By William Hazlitt
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
By William Hazlitt
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
By William Hazlitt
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
By William Hazlitt
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
By William Hazlitt
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
By William Hazlitt
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
By William Hazlitt
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
By William Hazlitt
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
By William Hazlitt
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
By William Hazlitt
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
By William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
By William Hazlitt
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings
By William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
By William Hazlitt
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.
By William Hazlitt
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
By William Hazlitt
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
By William Hazlitt