English - Critic | April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
William Hazlitt
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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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.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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