#les

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#concern #destruction #fellow #finger #gives

Rules and models destroy genius and art. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#destroy #genius #models #rules

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#doors #enter #favor #i #me

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 are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #force #friendship #itself #left

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#bad #bad example #compensate #could #effects

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging. ↗

— Denis Healey

#digging #first #first law #follow #good

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#became #big #climb #closer #deliberate

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#examination #great #imagined #immense #knowledge

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#america #chance #dignitaries #find #formerly