The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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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.William Hazlitt
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be To die is only to be as we were before we were born.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
William Hazlitt
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