Quotations From WILLIAM HAZLITT

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• 81.

  Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. "On the Pleasure of Hating," The Plain Speaker (1826).
  
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• 82.

  I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. "On the Pleasure of Hating," The Plain Speaker (1826).
  
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• 83.

  Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. "On Taste," Sketches and Essays (1839).
  
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• 84.

  No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. "On Taste," Sketches and Essays (1839).
• 85.

  Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. Lectures on the English Poets, "On Poetry in General," (1818).
  
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• 86.

  Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

  William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. "On Prejudice," Sketches and Essays (1839).
  
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