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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#love #others #ourselves #power

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#drive #every #heart #him #human

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#deceive #displease #entertain #esteem #few

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

#friendship #goodness #greatest #heart #lasting

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

— William Hazlitt

#everything #grow #into #others #ourselves

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#adversity #great #greater #prosperity

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#completely #few #hope #low #none

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#anywhere #borrow #could #home #i

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#except #friends #generally #our #ready