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«Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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abroad, absent, borrow, do well, for a while, fulfil, place of birth, recall, ties, travelling, well enough
«As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
acknowledgment, compliment, hypocrisy, The Force
«The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.»
«Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
gentility, overtaken, overtaking, vulgarity
«In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.»
«True friendship is self-love at secondhand»
«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 --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
despised, embalm, embalming, embalms, for instance, instance, rail, satire, substituted
«Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite»
«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.»
«Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.»
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