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Quote by William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

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Ridicule
Author
William Hazlitt
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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy
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William Hazlitt
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Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind. – Hesketh Pearson, The Whispering Gallery

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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. – David T. Wolf

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Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. – Edgar Saltus

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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true. – Ivor Novello

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Weve made science experiments of ourselves and our children. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. – Ambrose Bierce

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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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