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First Quotes by William Hazlitt
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions…
- Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them…
- I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We…
- The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they…
- The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest…
- In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what…
- The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
- Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression…
- The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
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