#her

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

— William Hazlitt

#advantage #always #another #best #blockhead

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#back #dead #fame #great #inheritance

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

#before #book #hundred #i #intents

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#better #else #neither #nor #nothing

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#defect #glaring #hides #lends #lustre

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#fear #gain #love #others #satirists

The public have neither shame or gratitude. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#neither #public #shame

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#admit #concern #does #first #himself

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#get #less #more #neighbours #neither

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#crime #heroism #infamy #religion #their