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

Henry Fielding

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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
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
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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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