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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Henry Fielding

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
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
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Flattery Himself Man Praise

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

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