A man must make his choice not only between virtue and vice, but between different virtues.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.William Hazlitt
What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind -- to take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and letting the rest slip for our imaginations, unheeded or forgotten How different from the common art of self-tormenting
William Hazlitt
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
William Hazlitt
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt
We may, with instruction and opportunity mend our manners, or else alter for the worse, -- as the flesh and fortune shall serve but the character, the internal, original bias, remains always the same, true to itself to the very last.
William Hazlitt
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt
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