A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDINGFor I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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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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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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