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William Hazlitt Quotes

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself, too, if he could.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Words are the only things that last forever

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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