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Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

William Hazlitt
Running, Blood, Literature
William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

William Hazlitt
Running, Fashion, Gentility
William Hazlitt (1856). “Criticisms on Art”, p.92

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

William Hazlitt
Running, Stupidity, Competition
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.

William Hazlitt
Running, Believe, Men
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

William Hazlitt
Positive, Running, Men
William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.37

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

William Hazlitt
Family, Running, Blood
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics

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