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William Hazlitt

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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.


— William Hazlitt


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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.


— William Hazlitt


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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.


— William Hazlitt


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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.


— William Hazlitt


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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.


— William Hazlitt


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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.


— William Hazlitt


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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.


— William Hazlitt


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Dandyism is a variety of genius.


— William Hazlitt


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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.


— 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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