Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Quote by William Hazlitt

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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they...

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they...

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

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

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

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it...

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it...

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to...

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to...

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying...

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying...

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end...

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end...

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

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

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has...

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has...

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is...

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is...

But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids...

But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids...