Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDING
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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