To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. – William Hazlitt
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. – William Hazlitt
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. – William Hazlitt
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