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Leaves Quotes by William Hazlitt
- The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism…
- 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…
- A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
- Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of…
- People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself…
- 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 ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
- 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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- The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. — Jacob Bronowski