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.
HENRY FIELDING
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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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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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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 writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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