William Hazlitt

I would like...

I would like...

I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at...

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I hate to...

I hate to...

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the...

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I do not...

I do not...

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We...

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His worst is...

His worst is...

His worst is better than any other person's best.

Source: English Literature, Ch....

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Mankind are an...

Mankind are an...

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols --it is all that they ask; the distinctions of...

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If we wish...

If we wish...

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of...

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If the world...

If the world...

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

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If goodness were...

If goodness were...

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea...

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I like a...

I like a...

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

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Modesty is the...

Modesty is the...

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues...

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Ignorance alone makes...

Ignorance alone makes...

Ignorance alone makes monsters or bug-bears; our actual acquaintances are all very common-place...

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If you think...

If you think...

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Source: 'On...

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If mankind had...

If mankind had...

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

Source:...

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It is hard...

It is hard...

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

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No man is...

No man is...

No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of...

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Learning is, in...

Learning is, in...

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made...

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It is not...

It is not...

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying...

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It is better...

It is better...

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

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It is well...

It is well...

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong...

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No truly great...

No truly great...

No truly great man ever thought himself so.

Source: Common Places, no. 20, in...

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