William Hazlitt

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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard

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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy

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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies

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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors

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I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them