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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.

Henry Fielding

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
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 greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper

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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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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