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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Henry Fielding

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
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
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
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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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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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Game Human Leaving Life Security
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice

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