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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

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. – William Hazlitt

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Education
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William Hazlitt
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other peoples weaknesses. – William Hazlitt

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Art
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William Hazlitt
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Art
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. – E. M. Forster

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Art

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. – Khalil Gibran

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Art

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. – George Jean Nathan

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Art

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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Art

Random Quotes

If male homosexuals are called “gay,” then female homosexuals should be called “ecstatic.” – Shelly Roberts

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Homosexuality

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Self

Even cats grow lonely and anxious. – Mason Cooley

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pet

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybodys power and is not easy. – Aristotle

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Anger