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«We may, with instruction and opportunity mend our manners, or else alter for the worse, -- as the flesh and fortune shall serve; but the character, the internal, original bias, remains always the same, true to itself to the very last.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.»
«Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«There are two classes of people that I have observed who are not so distinct as might be imagined -- those who cannot keep their own money in their hands, and those who cannot keep their hands from other people's.»
«The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosom and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.»
«I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.»
«A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.»
«Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.»
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