There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. I count only the hours that are serene.
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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.William Hazlitt
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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Right, in a word, is the duty which each man owes to himself or it is that portion of the general good of which (as being principally interested) he is made the special judge, and which is put under his immediate keeping.
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Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing . . . are not to be trusted with the management of any great question.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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So society, when out of order, which it is whenever the interests of the many are regularly and outrageously sacrificed to those of the few, must be repaired, and either a reform or a revolution cleanse its corruptions and renew its elasticity.
William Hazlitt
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