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William Hazlitt

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A wise traveler never despises his own country.


— William Hazlitt


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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.


— William Hazlitt


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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.


— 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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.


— William Hazlitt


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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.


— 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 smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.


— William Hazlitt


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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.


— William Hazlitt


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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.


— 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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