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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Henry Fielding

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
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
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 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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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
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
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption

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