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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.

Henry Fielding

Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
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
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
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
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
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice

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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