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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Henry Fielding

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage 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
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

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