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The world loves to be amused b...

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The world dread nothing so muc...

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

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A felon could plead 'benefit ...

A felon could plead 'benefit of clergy' and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the 'neck verse', which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

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I like a person who knows his ...

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

It is easier taking the beaten...

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Belief is with them mechanical...

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Whatever interests is interest...

Whatever interests is interesting.

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Faith is necessary to victory....

Faith is necessary to victory.

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Confidence gives a fool the ad...

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

When one can do better than ev...

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Well I've had a happy life....

Well I've had a happy life.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

To die is only to be as we wer...

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

This is the test and triumph o...

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Do not quarrel with the world ...

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

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Like a rustic at a fair, we ar...

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

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Human life may be regarded as ...

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

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So I have loitered my life awa...

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

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The most violent friendships s...

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

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Perhaps propriety is as near a...

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

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It is only necessary to raise ...

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

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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....