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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt

Food

Conversation

Wit

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

William Hazlitt

Controversy

Interest

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.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt

Age

Nature

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

William Hazlitt

Prohibition

Temptation

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt

Hate

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

William Hazlitt

Self

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

Courage

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

William Hazlitt

Sleep

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

William Hazlitt

Doubt

Reason

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

William Hazlitt

Order

Thinking

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.