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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Henry Fielding

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

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