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.

Quote by William Hazlitt

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns...

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns...

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

The world judge of men by their ability in their professions, and we judge of...

The world judge of men by their ability in their professions, and we judge of...

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements....

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements....

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we...

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we...

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we...

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we...

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to...

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to...

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to...

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to...

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

We must be doing something to be happy.

We must be doing something to be happy.

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere...

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere...