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... Laws are not , like women , the worse for being old , ' is an instance of a harmless truism and the utmost malice of wit united . This is , perhaps , what has been meant by the distinction between true and false wit .
... Laws are not , like women , the worse for being old , ' is an instance of a harmless truism and the utmost malice of wit united . This is , perhaps , what has been meant by the distinction between true and false wit .
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The indications of character and strokes of humour are more true and frequent ; the reflections that suggest themselves arise more from the occasion , and are less spun out into regular dissertations . They are more like the remarks ...
The indications of character and strokes of humour are more true and frequent ; the reflections that suggest themselves arise more from the occasion , and are less spun out into regular dissertations . They are more like the remarks ...
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This is true beauty and true sublimity : it is also true pathos and morality for it interests the mind , and affects it powerfully with the idea of glory tarnished , and happiness forfeited with the loss of virtue : but from the horns ...
This is true beauty and true sublimity : it is also true pathos and morality for it interests the mind , and affects it powerfully with the idea of glory tarnished , and happiness forfeited with the loss of virtue : but from the horns ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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