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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

William Hazlitt

Nothing

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

Faith

Victory

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

Language

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

William Hazlitt

Years

Yesterday

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

William Hazlitt

Learning

Reward

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

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.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

William Hazlitt

Man

Talk