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William Hazlitt on Christmas

1778–1830 England

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Political Essays (1819)

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

The Plain Speaker (1826)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Hazlitt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.