His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature.
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.William Hazlitt
His sayings are generally like women's letters all the pith is in the postcript.
William Hazlitt
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified.
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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