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William Hazlitt

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April 10, 1778 in Maidstone, The United Kingdom

died

September 18, 1830

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Nonfiction, Philosophy

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William Hazlitt was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell, but his work is currently little-read and mostly out of print. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

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Average rating: 3.70 · 293 ratings · 33 reviews · 171 distinct works

	On the Pleasure of Hating 3.63 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1826 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Selected Writings 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion 3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1980 — 39 editions	My rating:
	Selected Essays, 1778-1830 by William Hazlitt, Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1970 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Lectures on the English Poets 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 43 editions	My rating:
	The Fight And Other Writings 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 28 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The spirit of the age 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1971 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Classical Gazetteer 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Plain Speaker 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1826 — 22 editions	My rating:

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“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ”
― William Hazlitt

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“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
― William Hazlitt

tags: laughter , life

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“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
― William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830

tags: afraid , enemies , fear , friendship

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