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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.

Henry Fielding

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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
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
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
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

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