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“As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.”

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William Hazlitt, born on April 10, 1778, was an influential English essayist and literary critic. His works are renowned for their sharp observations and profound insights, which have had a lasting impact on 19th-century British literature. more

“There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.”

Knows Men Mind Humans Art Said Done Moving Natural Produce Genius Highest Miracle Extraordinary Breathe Vanity Human Mind True Genius

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.”

Thinking Talking Lows Proof Disposition Innate Meanness Gentility

Book:Table talk

Source: Table talk

“The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.”

Mind Ideas Faces Expression Arguing Enthusiasm Indifference Gentleman Sensibility Flexibility Refinement Enlargement Presence Of Mind

Author:William Hazlitt

“The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.”

World Looks Littles Reflection Gentleman

Author:William Hazlitt

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.”

Source: Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).

“Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.”

Men Moving Intellectual Gravity

Author:William Hazlitt

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