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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Henry Fielding

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
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
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
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 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
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
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate

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