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William Hazlitt föddes den 10 April 1778 och dog den 18 September 1830 - best known for his humanistic essays.
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 The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

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

 The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

 The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it

 The ballot is only useful as a screen from arbitrary power.

 The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

 The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.

 The busier we are the more leisure we have.

 The cannibals burn their enemies and eat them in good-fellowship with one another: meek Christian divines cast those who differ from them but a hair´s-breadth, body and soul into hell-fire for the glory of God and the good of his creatures! It is well that the power of such persons is not co-ordinate with their wills . . .

 The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

 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.

 The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

 The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

 The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

 The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste


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