Quotes by William Hazlitt

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of...

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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

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The busier we are the more leisure we have.

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure...

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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

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

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

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

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

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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with...

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