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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.


William Hazlitt

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are th...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Each brings his prejudices to the table. At first, she thinks he's a heathen and a barbarian. Then, ...
JODIE FOSTER [H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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DUDLEY DAVIDSON-JARRETT In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks...
KATHERINE HOWE BRITANNUS (shocked).
Caesar: this is not proper.

THEODOTUS (outraged).
How!
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KELLY JONES He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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CONFUCIUS He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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BLAISE PASCAL Everyone thinks that his own thoughts are best but finds no inspiration.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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