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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

~William Hazlitt

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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

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

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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

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The busier we are the more leisure we have.

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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: April 10th, 1778

Died: September 18th, 1830

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