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Worse Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of…
- It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- 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 persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature,…
- I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them…
- 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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