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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Henry Fielding

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
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
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING

Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself

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