The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of th…

William Hazlitt
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. ✨ William Hazlitt (1837). Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]., p.38
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. ✨ William Hazlitt (2015). Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated), p.2779, Delphi Classics
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal. ✨ Will … ▶
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. ✨ William Hazlitt (1870). The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, p.110
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. ✨ William Hazlitt (1904). The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. ✨ William Hazlitt (1837). Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]., p.38

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