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Certain Quotes by William Hazlitt
- To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
- No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as…
- Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
- The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
- Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
- One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of…
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