Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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If the schemes of Utopians could be realized, the tone of society would be changed from what it is, into a sort of insipid high life. There could be no fine tragedies written nor would there be any pleasure in seeing them. We tend to this conclusion already with the progress of civilization.William Hazlitt
The majority, compose them how you will, are a herd, and not a very nice one.
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
William Hazlitt
When a man is dead, they put money in his coffin, erect monuments to his memory, and celebrate the anniversary of his birthday in set speeches. Would they take any notice of him if he were living No.
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. . . . Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident.
William Hazlitt
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