William Hazlitt

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Born Friday 10 April 1778, died Saturday 18 September 1830

Professions: Critic, Philosopher, Writer

Nationality: English

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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

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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.

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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.

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

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Dandyism is a variety of genius.

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No young man ever thinks he shall die.

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

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