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.

Quote by William Hazlitt

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Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may...

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may...

It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak...

It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak...

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...

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in...

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in...

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find...

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find...

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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...

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...

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

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

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

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new...

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new...

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.