The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.William Hazlitt
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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At the outset of life . . . our imagination has a body to it.
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The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
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If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will. . .
William Hazlitt
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