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Many Quotes by William Hazlitt
- There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
- We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
- They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at…
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
- Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom,…
- The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt,…
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
- It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies…
- 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…
- 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,…
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- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
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- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
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