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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
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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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer

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