We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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