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Quote by William Hazlitt
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. - William Hazlitt

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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Imagination
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William Hazlitt
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Art

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. – Stendhal

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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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France is the country where the money falls apart and you cant tear the toilet paper. – Billy Wilder

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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. – Thomas Carlyle

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