Prejudice Quote by William Hazlitt

“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”

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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not…

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it.

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