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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

Henry Fielding

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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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
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
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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 no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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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Game Human Leaving Life Security
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax

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