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The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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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

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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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