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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Henry Fielding

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
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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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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