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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Henry Fielding

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
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
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
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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself

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