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Than Quotes by William Hazlitt
- There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
- Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
- You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
- The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
- There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
- Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
- Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
- The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
- There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better…
- Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine…
- Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well,…
- Zeal will do more than knowledge.
- The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
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