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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Henry Fielding

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 man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
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 much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman

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