The world has been doing little else but playing at make-be… - William Hazlitt

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The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.

William Hazlitt

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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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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about.

The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime. - William Hazlitt

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