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

Henry Fielding

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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
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
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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
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
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
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
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

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