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Wit is the rarest quality to b...

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Those who object to wit are en...

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Vice is man's nature: virtue i...

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Vanity does not refer to the o...

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Pride goes before a fall, they...

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Pride erects a little kingdom ...

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Men will die for an opinion as...

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.

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Kings ought never to be seen u...

Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are 'the best of kings'. It is their power, their splendour, it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of their favour or their hatred that dazzles the imagination and suspends the judgement of their favourites or their vassals; but death cancels the bond of allegiance and of interest; and seen AS THEY WERE, their power and their pretensions look monstrous and ridiculous.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Our contempt for others proves...

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

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While we desire, we do not enj...

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

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The history of mankind is a ro...

The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

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An honest man is respected by ...

An honest man is respected by all parties.

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Humanity is to be met with in ...

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

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There is evil poured upon the ...

There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A man in love prefers his pass...

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.

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When we hear complaints of the...

When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

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Love may turn to indifference ...

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

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Wrong dressed out in pride, po...

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

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People try to reconcile you to...

People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!

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The multitude who require to b...

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....