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William Hazlitt Quotes
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.
Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity, and the least of it in reality.
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
Some degree of affection is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body; we must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Motivational Quote
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Friend Quote
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Unhappiness Quote
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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