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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

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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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. – William Hazlitt

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Success
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. – William Hazlitt

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Courage
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Other Quotes from
Art
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill

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Art

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You cant invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Art

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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Art

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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

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We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. – Otto von Bismarck

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Im the one who made many of the bold comments that wed seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient. – Kevin Rollins

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. – Woodrow T. Wilson

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