There are only 3 pleasures in life pure and lasting, and they all are derived from inanimate things books, pictures, and the face of nature.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.William Hazlitt
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosom and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
William Hazlitt
If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
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