English - Critic | April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
William Hazlitt
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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