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Better Quotes by William Hazlitt
- What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it…
- Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them…
- It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
- If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea…
- The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to…
- When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress…
- We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is…
- It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
- What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to…
- One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
- It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
- However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced…
- It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
- The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
- There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better…
- 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,…
- There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature,…
- I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about
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