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Interest Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
- We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse…
- Whatever interests is interesting.
- We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear:…
- The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their…
- A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
- What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know…
- Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are…
- A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon…
- The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being…
- When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
- I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own…
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- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr
- I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like… — Alec Baldwin
- I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver… — Tammy Baldwin
- The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do… — Christian Bale
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