The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote. - William Hazlitt

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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

William Hazlitt

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About William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. He is sometimes esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson.

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Alternative Names: Wm. Haslett • William Carew Hazlitt

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Additional quotes by William Hazlitt

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.

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