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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
Explore more quotes by William Hazlitt

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."

"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
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