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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Henry Fielding

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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
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
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Game Human Leaving Life Security
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
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
HENRY FIELDING

Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science

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