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" Popery is said to be a make-believe religion : man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part ; he is ever at war with himself — his theory with his practice — what he would be (and therefore pretends to... "
Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy - Page 246
by William Hazlitt - 1826 - 416 pages
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 9

William Hazlitt - 1903 - 514 pages
...for the last hundred and fifty years, it must be confessed, they have had but an uneasy life of it. Lent is not kept here very strictly. The streets,...higher and his lower nature in a beautiful equivoque or double-entcndre of forms and mysteries, — the palpableness of sense with the dim abstractions of...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 0

William Hazlitt - 1903 - 506 pages
...cant and imposture : it is not more so than human nature itself. Popery is said to be a mate-believe religion : man is a make-believe animal — he is...higher and his lower nature in a beautiful equivoque or doublc-cntcndre of forms and mysteries, — the palpableness of sense with the dim abstractions of...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The principal picture-galleries in ...

William Hazlitt - 1903 - 522 pages
...so than human nature itself. Popery is said to be a male-belie-oe religion : man is a maJtc-bclicve animal — he is never so truly himself as when he...higher and his lower nature in a beautiful equivoque or double-entcndre of forms and mysteries, — the palpableness of sense with the dim abstractions of...
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A Treasury of English Aphorisms

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pages
...quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives. Ibid., W, XI, 259. MAN is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. Ibid., J, 246. MAN is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself....
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Communication: Ethical and Moral Issues

Lee Thayer - 1973 - 412 pages
...Anshen, New York, Harper, 1957, p. 121). 6. It is now commonplace to note, as Henry Hazlitt did, that "Man is a makebelieve animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part." The point I wish to raise here is not that there is some alternative for human sociation, but that...
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Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-siècle

Lewis H. Lapham - 1995 - 390 pages
...and President Bush will go on wearing funny hats and serving afternoon tea. July 1989 LEAD INTO GOLD Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. — WILLIAM HAZLITT m he Wall Street Journal last January took it upon itself to issue the m equivalent...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pages
...We are not hypocrites in our sleep. Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. 1842 Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. 1843 Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...resource of misanthropy. 4481 Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. 4482 music Creep in our ears. 10405 The Merchant ofVenice I am never merry when I hear sweet 4483 Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the...
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The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics

Richard Davenport-Hines, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines - 2003 - 596 pages
...a junkie beeause heroin is so passe -THE HANDY WARHOLS/IF YOU WERE THE LAST JUNKIE ON EARTH', 1997 Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when acting a part. -WILLIAM HAZLITT MCAFEE WAS A toothless, broken-limbed old jockey with a rasping Ulster...
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