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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt föddes den 10 april 1778 och dog den 18 september 1830 - best known for his humanistic essays.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best advantage.

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

Reflection makes men cowards.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

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

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelve-month with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

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