Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. – William Hazlitt
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. – William Hazlitt
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – 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