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Quotes by William Hazlitt
- A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
- A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
- A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
- A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
- A wise traveler never despises his own country.
- An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
- Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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