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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.

Henry Fielding

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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
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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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
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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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer

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