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.
HENRY FIELDINGPublic schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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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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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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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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