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Letter "W" » William Hazlitt Quotes
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«He [Coleridge] talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.»
«Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Classical education, gradation, gradations, narrow escape
«The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.»
«Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, Defoe, fellows, hundred thousand, popery
«It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.»
«We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.»
«Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bugbear, bugbears, distinctions, falsehood, idols, incorrigible, indifferent, right and wrong
«We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.»
«To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations»
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