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William Hazlitt - On the Pleasure of Hating (1826)

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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

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For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt
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Born: April 10, 1778
Died: September 18, 1830 (aged 52)
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