People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.William Hazlitt
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years. . .
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
William Hazlitt
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