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Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

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This illustrated volume includes a selection of essays, reviews, and literary criticism by the 19th-century English writer William Hazlitt. The collection showcases his wit, insight, and influence on English literature.

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This illustrated volume includes a selection of essays, reviews, and literary criticism by the 19th-century English writer William Hazlitt. The collection showcases his wit, insight, and influence on English literature.

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“Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.”

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“The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.”

People Knows Men World Business Ought Mets Arguing Distinction Sensible Spinning Cobwebs

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“I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.”

People Knows Book Language Understanding Perfect Common Ignorance Judging Advantage Stranger Senses Mediums Appeals Common Language Perfect Strangers Those Who Judge

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“A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.”

Men Ideas Greater Dignity Great Men Really Great

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“...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.”

Greatness Dignity Shrinks

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“A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.”

Men Kings Dignity Great Men Great Power

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“Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.”

Ends Laughing Comedy Mankind Weakness Folly Ridicule Exposing

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“Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.”

People Men Natural Steps Greatness Patient Improving Boldness Lofty Vigor Steep Ascent Eminence Always Improving

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“I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.”

Thinking Found Names London Deserving

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

Wish Kindness Ready Favors

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“If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.”

Ifs Long Might Peace Society Mankind Long Ago

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“A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.”

Giving Action Pain Steps Teach Danger Bears Dread Moderates Fortitude Every Step Precarious Tenure

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“A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.”

Persons Interest Subjects Conversation Equal Repose Vivacity

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“We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.”

Ifs Dream Eye Forget Doors Passing Passings Our Dreams Passing Out

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“The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.”

Lasts Life Is Pleasure Duty

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“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”

Writing Able Education

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“We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.”

Men Names Common Imagine Fame Admiration Imagine That

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“True friendship is self-love at second-hand.”

Self Hands Friendship Self Love True Friend True Friendship Second Hand

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“He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.”

Mind Ideas Greatness Lows Standards Come Up

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“The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.”

Sometimes Natural Relief Human Condition Accompany Refinement

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“Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.”

Honesty Earnest Eloquence

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“Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.”

Men Hard Levels Wise Imagine Fool Mets Absolutes Surface Giants Dwarfs

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“Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.”

Persons Running Streets Intellectual Competition Stupidity Dread Stamina Dwarfs Slender

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“A thought must tell at once, or not at all.”

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“The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.”

Taste Improvement Diffusion

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“Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.”

World Book Library Volume

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