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William Hazlitt

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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.


— William Hazlitt


#asked #fall #i #like #millions

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


#animal #beauty #big #cheek #color

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.


— William Hazlitt


#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.


— William Hazlitt


#love #others #ourselves #power

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.


— William Hazlitt


#ignorance #prejudice






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Edited by P. Together with some newly written and one brought in from the "Table-Talk" series they were collected in book form in 1825 as The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary Portraits. One or two positive reviews appeared such as the one in the Globe 7 June 1823: "The Liber Amoris is unique in the English language; and as possibly the first book in its fervour its vehemency and its careless exposure of passion and weakness—of sentiments and sensations which the common race of mankind seek most studiously to mystify or conceal—that exhibits a portion of the most distinguishing characteristics of Rousseau it ought to be generally praised".

Yet his work is currently little read and mostly out of print. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.

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