#ex

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#except #friends #generally #our #ready

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#defined #expression #gracefulness #harmony #inward

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#ever #except #perfection #stealth #themselves

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#because #excel #genius #people #profession

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#exemption #fancied #prejudice #strong #which

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#maths #sex #equality

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#bad #bad example #compensate #could #effects

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. ↗

— Edith Head

#except #i #lassie #like #see