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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#born #bred #dissenter #hard #honest

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cold #distasteful #friendships #like #meats

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#exemption #fancied #prejudice #strong #which

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

— William Hazlitt

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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 bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#deprived #everything #our

Zeal will do more than knowledge. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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