A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

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A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

William Hazlitt · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 562

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True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves--neither more nor less.

William Hazlitt · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 159

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Obstinate silence implies either a mean opinion of ourselves, or a contempt for our company; and it is the more provoking, as others do not know to which of these causes to attribute it--whether humility or pride.

William Hazlitt · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 244

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The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

William Hazlitt · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 258

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It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world: he would seem to belong to a different species.

William Hazlitt · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 269