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William Hazlitt Quotes

«Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.»
«Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.»
«A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.»
«A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.»
«Those who can command themselves command others.»
«We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.»
«The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: counting
«There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: blushes, scroll, scrolls
«Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.»
«It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment . . . known by no other title than The Gentleman in the Parlour!»