Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voiceWilliam Hazlitt
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
William Hazlitt
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism And when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
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No truly great man ever thought himself so.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes.
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