 | William Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1837 - 176 pages
...self-evident superiority to others. c. What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprize, is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed...no more reason for it in the one case than in the other. Any one may win at cards by cheating — till he is found out. We have been playing against... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1837 - 188 pages
...self-evident superiority to others. c. What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprize, is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed...no more reason for it in the one case than in the other. Any one may win at cards by cheating —till he is found out. We have been playing against odds.... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1871 - 592 pages
...enterprise, is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greatei share of invention, but from not being nice in the...no more reason for it in the one case than in the other. Any one may win at cards by cheating — till he is found out : we have been playing against... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1871 - 582 pages
...enterprise, is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greati1 share of invention, but from not being nice in the...settled practice. We feel no inferiority to a fellow who pick? our pockets; though we feel mortified at being overreached by trick and cunning. Yet there is... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...I'irgCunctis servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus — AH hailing him a^. saviour and deliverer. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. Hazlitt. S5 Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. WG Algtr. Cunning U the intensest rendering of vulgarity,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...craft ; like him that shoots up high, looks for the shaft, and finds it in his forehead. — Middle/on. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weakReading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. — Bacon. There is... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...slippery ; lying only makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. — LA BRUYERE. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — HAZLITT. A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. — BEECHER. The animals to... | |
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The last are discouraged by the slightest objection or hint of their conscious incapacity ; while the first disdain to enter into any competition, and resent whatever implies a doubt of their self-evident superiority to others. C. What passes in the world... 