"The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners……" — William Hazlitt
"The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers."
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William Hazlitt
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.
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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
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A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and…
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At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body.…
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Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
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Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except…
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I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English.…
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