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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one—they shew one another off to the best advantage. - William Hazlitt Attribution: William Hazlitt (1778–1830), British essayist. repr. In The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault’s Maxims, no. 376 (1823).

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William Hazlitt

Encyclopedia:

• Hazlitt, William Carew (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Hazlitt, William (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Hazlitt, William (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Hazlitt, William (The Oxford Dictionary of Art)

Salem on Literature:

• The Familiar Essays of William Hazlitt (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• The Critical Essays of William Hazlitt (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• William Hazlitt (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Literary Criticism:

• Hazlitt, William (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)