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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.

Henry Fielding

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
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth

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