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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.

Henry Fielding

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
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
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
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
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
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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

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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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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