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«You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world»
«It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak our lasting vengeance. It is ourselves that we cannot forgive.»
«The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing . . . are not to be trusted with the management of any great question.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.»
«An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity.»
«There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.»
«A man must make his choice not only between virtue and vice, but between different virtues.»
Author: William Hazlitt
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