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William Hazlitt Quotes
«I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value.»
«Never anticipate evils; or, because you cannot have things exactly as you wish, make them out worse than they are, through mere spite and willfulness.»
«Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.»
«We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to try ourselves whether there is any truth in them.»
«We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before.»
«The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.»
«Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.»
«His worst is better than any other person's best.»
«When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society.»
«If the schemes of Utopians could be realized, the tone of society would be changed from what it is, into a sort of insipid high life. There could be no fine tragedies written; nor would there be any pleasure in seeing them. We tend to this conclusion already with the progress of civilization.»