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William Hazlitt

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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.


— 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


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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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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.


— William Hazlitt


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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.


— William Hazlitt


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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.


— 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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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.


— William Hazlitt


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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.


— William Hazlitt


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A wise traveler never despises his own country.


— William Hazlitt


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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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