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William Hazlitt

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Reflection makes men cowards.


— William Hazlitt


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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.


— William Hazlitt


#fear #gain #love #others #satirists

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.


— William Hazlitt


#joke #some #sufferer #sure

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.


— William Hazlitt


#breaking #people #pleasure #promises #some

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.


— William Hazlitt


#being #consists #pleased #pleasing

The busier we are the more leisure we have.


— William Hazlitt


#leisure #more

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.


— William Hazlitt


#despise #despised #dupe #enough #fool

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.


— William Hazlitt


#must #nation #owned #rather

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.


— William Hazlitt


#humblest #nature #painter #scholar #scholars

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.


— William Hazlitt


#incentive #love #power






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Edited by P. Together with some newly written and one brought in from the "Table-Talk" series they were collected in book form in 1825 as The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary Portraits. One or two positive reviews appeared such as the one in the Globe 7 June 1823: "The Liber Amoris is unique in the English language; and as possibly the first book in its fervour its vehemency and its careless exposure of passion and weakness—of sentiments and sensations which the common race of mankind seek most studiously to mystify or conceal—that exhibits a portion of the most distinguishing characteristics of Rousseau it ought to be generally praised".

Yet his work is currently little read and mostly out of print. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.

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