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“Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.”

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No. 2
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“No really great man ever thought himself so.”

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"Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“The more we do, the more we can do. ”

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“I am no politician, and still less can I be said to be a party-man : I have a hatred of tyranny, and a contempt for its tools; and this feeling I have expressed as often and as strongly as I could. I cannot sit quietly down under the claims of barefaced power, and have tried to expose the little arts of sophistry by which they are defended. I have no mind to have my person made a property of, nor my understanding made a dupe of. I deny that liberty and slavery are convertible terms, that right and wrong, truth and falsehood, plenty and famine, the comforts or wretchedness of a people, are matters of perfect indifference. That is all I know of the matter; but on these points I am likely to remain incorrigible, in spite of any arguments that I have seen used to the contrary. It needs no sagacity to discover that two and two make four; but to persist in maintaining this obvious position, if all the fashion, authority, hypocrisy, and venality of mankind were arrayed against it, would require a considerable effort of personal courage, and would soon leave a man in a very formidable minority.”

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" "Preface" http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Political/Preface.htm <br class="br">Political Essays (1819)

“We are very much what others think of us.”

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The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
No. 364
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.”

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