The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.William Hazlitt
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.
William Hazlitt
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
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.
William Hazlitt
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