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Want Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
- The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
- Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes,…
- 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…
- Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but…
- We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in…
- 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…
- Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or…
- 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,…
- Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use
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