Good temper is an estate for life… - William Hazlitt

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Good temper is an estate for life…

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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Michel de Montaigne Friedrich Nietzsche Samuel Johnson Ralph Waldo Emerson Arthur Schopenhauer

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All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it

He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?