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The public have neither shame or gratitude. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#neither #public #shame

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breed #contempt #edge #familiarity #may

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#being #contempt #dead #living #poor

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#efforts #gives #meet #much #observations

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#hate #know #scarcely

Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#maths #sex #equality

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#food #salt #wit

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business. ↗

— Lena Headey

#beautiful #been #being #being beautiful #business

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#believed #get #had #i #i always

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#authority #avoidance #figure #habit #home