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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

~William Hazlitt

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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: April 10th, 1778

Died: September 18th, 1830

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