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Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Henry Fielding

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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
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
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
When 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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Blood Brave Food Heart
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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

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