"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses."
― William Hazlitt
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Art
More From William Hazlitt
- "Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."
- "Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."
- "No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."
More In Art
- "I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."― David Ogilvy
- "Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize."― James Joyce
- "The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."― Cyril Connolly