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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breaking #people #pleasure #promises #some

The public have neither shame or gratitude. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#neither #public #shame

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#barbarous #everything #his #own #prejudices

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

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#depends #judge #life #men #our

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

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

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #descend #despicable #idiot #lower

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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