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William Hazlitt

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

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"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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"Be an artist in everything you do."

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"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

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"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."

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"Music gives life to the soul."

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"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours)."
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"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive."
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"No young man ever thinks he shall die."
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"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."
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"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do."
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"Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought."
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"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."
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"To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes."
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